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by moogly 3355 days ago
Maybe one part of the problem is conflating laptops with "desktop". Maybe I'm misguided since I don't use laptops for serious screen time and thus don't really care about power consumption at all, but it seems to me that perhaps laptops shouldn't be lumped in with desktops in this way as is now popular. Maybe we still have 3 major form-factor platforms[1], or perhaps even laptops should rather be lumped in with mobile, especially since we have 2-in-1 tablet/laptop hybrid devices.

[1]: Contrary to what Intel has been pushing with their lamentable "mobile-first" strategy.
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bluejekyll 3355 days ago
> I don't use laptops for serious screen time

You're going to be more and more in the minority on this. Even though I prefer Chrome, on my MacBook I use Safari because I find it's battery usage to be significantly less.

I don't notice anything similar with VSCode, so its not Chrome/electron implicitly.

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floatboth 3355 days ago
> laptops shouldn't be lumped in with desktops

They are x86 systems that run the same operating systems as big desktop towers. Many people use laptops as their one and only x86 machine. Why would you not lump them in with desktops?

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moogly 3355 days ago
I thought that was rather clear. Because they (partially) run on batteries. After all, that seems to be the main problem people have with Electron in these HN threads.
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